Are you Muslim yourself? Not that it matters to the story, just curious.

This is a complex and difficult time. If I were a regular, average, moderate Muslim just trying to live my life in a western nation, I would probably be very nervous right now. There is a lot of strong anti-Muslim sentiment in the west.

This is obviously due to the fact that the primary perpetrator of large scale militant barbarism in the world right now is, in fact, organized radical Islam. That is not to say Christianity has not had its radicalized periods when it behaved horribly, of course it has, but in our world right now today, there is no other religious entity out there doing what radicalized Islam is doing on as wide a scare or with as much wanton cruelty.

But of course there are what, a billion and a half Muslims in the world, and the number that support or perpetrate these acts are an extremely small percentage. The odds of any particular random Muslim you meet or who might be in your community being radicalized are extremely small, such a small chance that you face far greater danger just driving to work. I know this, you know this, but it's very hard to make people remember that. Especially when ISIS floods the internet with graphic videos of inhuman tortures and executions of their prisoners. Especially when every other month some radicalized cell of Muslims bombs a concert or shoots up a work place or attacks a soccer stadium.

It is a very hard time to be a Muslim in the western world right now. If you live in the middle east, you face the greatest danger from your own radical fellow muslims who may commit violence upon you for not being the right kind of Muslim. If you live outside of the Middle East, the constant barbarism and violence of that small percentage of extremist Muslims makes the rest of the world look at you with suspicion and fear.

I really don't know how to make this better. Obviously the terrorist attacks need to stop, ISIS needs to be defeated. ISIS needs to be defeated with the eager help of other Muslims, so that the West knows that the rest of the Islamic World finds this behavior unacceptable.

And lastly, the Islamic world needs to have a bit of a Renaissance in which they give up or move past most of the practices that the west finds barbaric. Such as the poor treatment of women and gays.

I think that is the recipe that will best heal the wounds between Christendom/The West and the Islamic Faith. But how to get there from here.....that is a long and difficult road.